The Country Focus section ‘Kingdom of Spain’ opened with the screening of ‘Isla Bonita’ at IFFI 2015 here today (21.11.2015).
Earlier today, the Counsellor of Tourism of Spain, Mr Ignacio Ducasse Gutierrez, and Spain’s Cultural Counsellor, Ms Alejandra Garcia Fuertes addressed a press conference on the Focus Country for IFFI.
Briefing the media, Alejandra Garcia Fuertes said that after the film “Zindagi na milegee dobara”, Spain and India are discovering each other in a new way.
Responding to a question she said Film scenario in Spain is changing and the Spanish people are interested to see Indian culture and lifestyle and India should make efforts to showcase its films in Spain.
Responding to a question she said Film scenario in Spain is changing and the Spanish people are interested to see Indian culture and lifestyle and India should make efforts to showcase its films in Spain.
Mr Gutierrez said that Spain offers a variety of landscape to film makers. Spain too, like India, has a long history. There are monuments, castles and other structures from various eras which make interesting locations for film shooting. Spain also has created infrastructure to facilitate shooting of films there, he explained.
In this section, the festival will present the best of Spanish cinema from Master filmmakers like Carlos Saura and Pedro Almadovarto the young and enthusiastic director Alejandro Amenabar. The section will also feature the newly find Leticia Dolera’s debut film “Requirements To Be A Normal Person”.
Films to be screened in the section:
1. The Sea Inside/ Mar Adentro/ Alejandro Amenabar/ Spain, France, Italy/ 2004/ 125
2. Thesis/ Tesis/ Alejandro Amenabar/ Spain/ 1996/ 125
3. Goya in Bordeaux/ GOYA EN BURDEOS/ Carlos Saura/ Spain, Italy/ 1999/ 100
4. Tango/ Tango/ Carlos Saura/ Spain, Argentina/ 1998/ 115
5. Bad Education/ La mala educacion/ Pedro Almodovar/ Spain/ 2004/ 106
6. Isla Bonita/ Isla Bonita/ Fernando Colomo/ Spain/ 2015/ 101
7. Requirements To Be A Normal Person/ Requisitos Para Ser Una Persona Normal/ Leticia Dolera/ Spain/ 2015/ 95
Courtesy: pib.nic.in
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